• Correct: The basketball team won the game!
• Incorrect: I am going to the game! The game is on Friday! There is no class on Friday!
• Incorrect: The basketball team won the game!!!!!!!!!!!!
HYPHENS Use a hyphen to connect two or more words, but only when they are used as adjectives.
• She has a full-time job on campus.
• He teaches an on-campus course full time because he enjoys being on campus.
Do not use a hyphen to connect "-ly " adverbs to the words they modify.
• Incorrect: The heavily-loaded truck began its drive.
• Correct: The heavily loaded truck began its drive.
Do not use a hyphen to designate dual heritage.
• Incorrect: African-American
• Correct: Mexican American
• Correct: African American studies
Suspend hyphens in a series.
• Do you want first-, business-, or economy-class tickets? Hyphenate prefixes only when the root word begins with a vowel and the prefix ends with the same vowel.
• pre-emptive, semi-invalid, precook
Do not hyphenate the word " collegewide " – this is a Florida College System term that has entered common usage in our world.
Note: There may be EFSC departments that use a hyphenated version of collegewide in their own communications, but the website still uses it as one word for consistency.
• The Office of Collegewide Communications is happy to assist you! PERIODS Always use a single space after a period( the Internet is not a typewriter).
• Correct: I have a Snapchat account. I use it all the time.
• Incorrect: I have a Snapchat account. I use it all the time.
Periods should also follow URLs that fall at the end of a sentence.( Important Note: When hyperlinking the URL, do not include the period in the active hyperlink.)
• Correct: For more information, visit easternflorida. edu / go / greendot.
• Incorrect: For more information, visit easternflorida. edu / go / greendot
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